So, lets have a look at the evidence presented in 50 pages that large numbers (up to 2/3rds) of frontline units of Fighter Command were using 87 octane fuel right through until at least September 1940...
A summary of a document, apparently found in the AWM (which cannot find the document) and which was part of a thread from 2004, in another forum; this can only be read by members of that forum. The document itself has not yet been seen by the one who pins 100% faith on its authenticity.
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Originally Posted by Kurfürst
Glider already tried this line. The Forum and the thread is easily accessible, for registered AND approved members.
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Pre-war documents which planned to have 16 FC and two Blenheim squadrons using 100 Octane by September 1940. There is lots of attention focused on the words "certain" and "concerned", but hardly any on the fact that these are pre-war planning documents.
Quote from Morgan and Shacklady.
Otherwise nada, zip. Lots of bluster and smokescreens and diversions, but
no documentary evidence showing that 100 Octane use was restricted to "selected", "concerned" or "certain" frontline Fighter Command units during the Battle of Britain.
When directly asked to build a case, using documentary evidence, for the widespread use of 87 octane fuel by frontline units of Fighter Command during the B of B, the protagonists either go silent, or feel "insulted".
The people who should feel insulted are those who have gone to a huge amount of effort to find and present documents supporting a case for the full scale use of 100 0ctane fuel by frontline FC units, only to be confronted by the same old nonsense, which has also been thrown about on other forums, and in Wikipedia, particularly as
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Originally Posted by Kurfürst
I have...only a very passing interest (in) the RAF...
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That's it, that's what 50 pages of wrangling boils down to.
03-04-2012, 06:20 PM
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